Hike is an Indian AI-led Unicorn startup that is committed to building a new social future. Hike believes that the future of social will have products that are joyful and built around people, not the other way around. The company believes the future of social lies in social niches and is scaling that future through two bets, Hike Sticker Chat & WinZO. Redefining what social means to Indian users, Hike recently launched HikeLand, a virtual world enabling magical shared experiences with HikerMoji as users’ virtual identity.

What is Hike Sticker Chat?

Hike Sticker Chat is an expression platform through which Hike aims to take expressions beyond the keyboard. In line with the company’s vision of bringing new-age social experiences, the company recently launched a hyper-local avatar, HikeMoji built at the intersection of art and AI. Redefining what social means to Indian users, Hike recently launched HikeLand, a virtual world enabling magical shared experiences with HikerMoji as users’ virtual identity.

In line with the Hike’s vision of bringing new-age social experiences, the company recently launched a hyper-local avatar, HikeMoji built at the intersection of art and AI. Redefining what social means to Indian users, Hike recently launched HikeLand, a virtual world enabling magical shared experiences with HikerMoji as users’ virtual identity.

Redefining what social means to Indian users, Hike recently launched HikeLand, a virtual world enabling magical shared experiences with HikerMoji as users’ virtual identity.

What is HikeLand Home?

Home is your very own Home on #HikeLand. It’s a private place for you and your loved ones to hang out.

What is HikeLand Big Screen?

In #HikeLand, just like in life, we want to build opportunities for people to meet other people in a fun way. So, we have built Big Screen to start with - a place that brings people together around the content they love.

When you enter HikeLand, you become part of a like-minded community of people from around the world. Like you, everyone is here to hangout over magical shared experiences. Being part of this community means that we promise to keep each other safe.

All the data stored on our servers is completely encrypted with the AES-128 algorithm with strong Key and Salt stored in a completely different key management system, KMS. This allows us to ensure that user data is always kept safe.

Artificial Intelligence
& Machine Learning

At Hike, we believe technology should wrap itself around people and not the other way around. Advancements in the field of AI are finally enabling us to bringing about this change.

Come join us as we take the world beyond the keyboard.

Research Areas

Natural Language Processing

Creating contextual experiences by making sense of chat in different Indian languages.

Computer Vision

Reinventing audio and visual communication.

Social Network Analysis

Mining large scale networks for connecting people and driving business growth.

Publications

Contextual Typeahead Sticker Suggestions on Hike

We describe how the system addresses the issue of numerous orthographic variations for chat messages and operates under 20 milliseconds with low CPU and memory footprint on device.

Heterogeneous Edge Embedding for Friend Recommendation

We propose a friend recommendation system using edge embedding on social networks. Our method outperforms various state-of-the-art baselines on Hike's social network in terms of accuracy metrics as well as user satisfaction.